Check Point Advisories

Cisco OSPF LSA Manipulation Denial of Service (CVE-2013-0149)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2013-2538
Date Published: 13 Aug 2013
Severity: High
Last Updated: Monday 06 January, 2025
Source: CVE-2013-0149
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R75
Who is Vulnerable? Cisco IOS 12.0 through 12.4
Cisco IOS 15.0 through 15.3
Cisco IOS-XE 2.x through 3.9.xS
ASA and PIX 7.x through 9.1
FWSM
NX-OS
StarOS before 14.0.50488
Vulnerability Description A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in Multiple Cisco Products.
Vulnerability DetailsThe vulnerability is due to improper validation of the Link State Advertisement (LSA) type 1 packets before performing operations on the LSA database. Successful exploitation may cause routing disruption on the server, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Protection Overview

IPS will detect and block specialy crafted Link State Advertisement packets.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your product to the latest update. For information on how to update , go to SBP-2006-05, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Cisco OSPF LSA Manipulation Denial of Service protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: Cisco Protection Violation
Attack Information: Cisco OSPF LSA Manipulation Denial of Service

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